Most people on Lemmy have heard of Ruqqus - The open source, “Free Speech” Reddit alternative. Ruqqus was always right leaning, and there was a small brigade of leftists who withstood it all, preventing it from becoming a complete hive mind.
Over 2 years, Ruqqus struggled to find it’s place of original content, and while it was getting better, it was a painfully slow process. Until yesterday, when the admins decided to cut the game short:
I’ve supported Ruqqus in a lot of ways, but that’s the end of it from me. Ruqqus’ new goal is to become a bit more like Wordpress, where users can set up their own instances.
If that sounds like Lemmy, it is with some small differences:
- Ruqqus does not have federation
- Ruqqus has great UX
But for most users, this is the end. I’ll be stepping down as the mod of this community, since I have nothing more to add here.
All the best!
If you can host your own instance, wouldn’t that mean that you can upload whatever content you want? Right, left, libertarian, no-politic, etc…?
Though if it doesnt federate is better to stick with lemmy though is strongly left leaning but is gettin quite diverse in all ways